Apparently, we’re living through a polycrisis. Defined by the Collins Dictionary as “the simultaneous occurrence of several catastrophic events”, the term was first coined by the French philosopher Edgar Morin in 1993 and has been popularised recently by the English historian Adam Tooze.  At base, the concept captures the hazy consensus that we’re especially cursed. Not for us the regular challenges of past generations. Seemingly, their wars, depressions, famines and genocides shrink beside our incomparable calamities.  Of course, this is nonsense. Just pondering the past century or so, shocking crises are depressingly persistent.  Briefly touching the surface, the early 1900s…

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